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outrun

[out-ruhn] / ˌaʊtˈrʌn /
VERB
run faster than
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We don’t want to hear commencement speeches about how we cannot outrun AI domination because they trivialize the work we have done ourselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Not in the wholehearted country-song sense, where crossing the county line might allow me to outrun myself.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

"The market is increasingly rewarding companies that expand revenue while maintaining spending discipline, and penalising those whose ambitions have outrun their balance sheets," said Fabien Yip at IG.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

The argument is about timing: how much longer AI spending can outrun the doubts, and how violently the market will react when the reckoning finally arrives.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

I could not escape her anymore than I could outrun my shadow.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

The author outruns the evidence when he claims the NFL was “designed for gambling.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Engineers call this problem the "memory wall," where processing speed outruns the chip's ability to feed it data.

From Science Daily Dec. 24, 2025

Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.

From MarketWatch Dec. 2, 2025

It’s a prime example of how food still outruns overall inflation in the European Union.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

My pulse outruns the seconds, each beat bringing me closer to capture.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Nine days in February that revealed how the most powerful technology in human history outran every institution built to contain it.

From MarketWatch Feb. 13, 2026

Nike outran expectations in its latest quarterly report.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 3, 2025

Enten noted that no party outran the polls three election cycles in a row nationally or in key battleground states since 1972.

From Salon Oct. 30, 2024

“His ambition outran his ethics,” Mr. Koenig said.

From New York Times Jun. 15, 2024

Suzi says, and Dina replies, “That’s not true! I outran you!”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The AI spending boom is outrunning Wall Street estimates, Trump considers changing capital-gains taxes, China’s property crisis isn’t over, and more news to start your day.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

The rate of inflation crested above 4% in May to a three-year high, briefly outrunning the typical increase in workers’ wages.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Some see an economy at risk of overheating, with demand outrunning what the Fed’s current rate setting can restrain.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

For someone who spent years outrunning love, I was surprised to learn that when I stopped spiraling in my mind, I could finally trust what my body already knew.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

He escaped them and ran northward over the land towards the Ice, outrunning all who pursued him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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